Out of the top five countries that have won the most amount of Olympic golds and medals so far at Rio 2016, Great Britain has the best medal to person ratio.
Great Britain overtook China for second spot last night during Britain’s best ever day at an overseas Olympic games, winning five gold medals and three silvers.
GB are above China because although both nations have the same amount of gold medals, Britain have three more silver medals.
Top 5 in the medal table as of August 15 at 11.00am
- United States Gold26 Silver21 Bronze22 Total69
- Great Britain Gold15 Silver16 Bronze7 Total38
- China Gold15 Silver13 Bronze17 Total45
- Russia Gold9 Silver11 Bronze10 Total30
- Germany Gold8 Silver5 Bronze4 Total17
Great Britain has the smallest population out of the five teams occupying the top spots.
The largest population of the five is China with over a billion more people living there than the nation in second place United States.
Populations of the top 5 (according to Worldometers)
- China 1,382,323,332
- United States 324,118,787
- Russia 143,439,832
- Germany 80,682,351
- Great Britain 65,111,143
The figures are worked out by dividing the population of the nations with how many medals have been won so far.
Great Britain have nearly two and a half times more gold medals per person than second placed Germany so far at the Olympics.
With Britain averaging a gold medal for every 4.3m people, China have a gold medal for every 92m.
Gold medals per person
- Great Britain 4,340,743
- Germany 10,085,294
- United States 12,466,107
- Russia 15,937,759
- China 92,154,889
Great Britain have a medal of any sort for every 1.7m people which is just under three times that of the United States.
The US have a better medals to person ratio over Germany with the Germans having a better gold to person ratio.
Russia are close behind the two with China having one medal for every 30.7m people.
Medals per person
- Great Britain 1,713,451
- United States 4,697,374
- Germany 4,746,038
- Russia 4,781,328
- China 30,718,296
